Monthly Archives: July 2012

I’ve created a ‘Shop’ page on my WordPress site and am looking into ways that people can ‘add to basket’ etc and pay ideally through Paypal. There are a couple of plugins that I have seen, but have no experience of. One of them is Cashie Commerce, which takes a 2.5% commission on sales and […]

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I’m continuing to experiment with WordPress and building this site in the process. So it’s very much a case of 2 steps forward and 1 step back! The more I’m exploring and experimenting, the more decisions I make on how I want to present my work. Ideally I want the experience of exploring my artwork to […]

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I’ve spent a lot of time painting layers using both acrylic and oil based mediums such as Liqutex Gloss Medium & Varnish, and a fast drying oil medium such as Alkyd Resin. Whether neat or as transparent layers, I find the oil based mediums to be more glass-like, warmer and ultimately a ‘glossier’ finish (if […]

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Today I rephotographed my painting Transition to incorporate some staged reflections. This is an interest that I have been continuing to develop for some time, mainly since my painting Tabletops, Televisions and Aeroplanes, which has a mirror containing a reflection of the room it is in on its surface (the same can be said of […]

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Ok, so this isn’t The Hitch Hiker’s Guide To The Galaxy, but I feel like I need reminding not to panic. I’ve decided to bite the bullet and start to build my own website using the WordPress publishing platform. I signed up to Fasthosts to host my site and installed WordPress. All very straightforward until […]

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Through the practice of drawing, my aims are to experiment with information that I intentionally omit while in the drawing ‘bubble’. I particularly like drawings and paintings that have an economy of gesture, where the object depicted flickers between apparent solidity and the crumbling reveal of the marks made by the artist. At present I […]